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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed f ...
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic i ...
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their ...
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved--c ...
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
I have seen in my time two enormous extensions of the suffrage to men--one in America and one in England. But neither the negroes ...
But their determination to banish fools foundered
ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
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